Eighty-year-old Nobel Prize winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus has issued a comprehensive rebuttal of years of criticism from the Bangladesh government, stating, among other points, that he had no involvement in the World Bank’s cancellation of financing ten years ago for the Padma Bridge
Jean Todt, the special envoy of the secretary-general for road safety, talks with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
At a cost of nearly $200 million, the Chinese government has completed building Zimbabwe’s new parliament building outside the country’s capital, Harare. However, detractors claim there are worries about security and China’s expanding influence. It replaces a colonial-era building
Taiwanese NGO worker Lee Ming-Cheh was released from Chishan Prison in the central Chinese province of Hunan on April 15 after serving nearly five years for “attempting to subvert state power.”
As Security Council Facilitator for the application of resolution 2231, Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the UN, provides a non-proliferation update at the Security Council meeting (2015)
Many kindergarten buildings in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine have been converted into refugee centers that welcome Ukrainians from less safe areas of this country
Thai analysts predict that this year’s rice production will be in rise than last, driven by the war in Ukraine and its effects on rising global commodity prices, despite concerns about wheat shortages in Russia and Ukraine
United Nations Security Council meeting on the matter concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo is presided over by Albana Dautllari, the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Albania to the UN and President of the Security Council for the month of June
In the northern Afar region of Ethiopia, where there is a record drought, infant mortality rates are soaring, according to the only referral hospital. Less than 10% of the clinics in the area are functioning as a result of Ethiopia’s war with Tigrayan forces, and hospitals are having trouble keeping up
After undergoing a significant makeover in 2018, School #66 was the pride of Mariupol. However, everything changed in late February 2022